Conspiracy Theories and Relativity
[thoughts from ~burning woman~ by Sha'Tara]
I like conspiracy theories; they keep the original story alive and being kept alive, it means that it can change. Conspiracy theories change history; change the past. If one understands relativity, it’s a simple realization that conspiracy theories never need be proven. They remain, as all of science also does, theories. Nothing, absolutely nothing can be known for sure. One can feel quite secure “knowing” that something will always work; always perform as expected, if it has done so consistently over a relatively long period of time, or over a relatively large number of repeated events. A car starts every morning. You know this, and you plan your leave accordingly in order to arrive to work on time. But, comes an unseasonably cold morning, the battery is old, and there just isn’t enough power to turn over the engine and fire the fuel – no start. You phone the boss and explain, then call roadside service for a boost, or a new battery. So on that one morning, you’re late for work. Swallowed up in relativity; hardly noticed and soon forgotten in other events and the car starts every morning once more.
But it did fail that one morning. It’s not infallible. If I were to create a conspiracy theory about cars not starting, there would be some truth to it. I am reminded of the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster, and how NASA desperately tried to hide the fact that they took a chance on giving a go to that particular launch. It should have been delayed because of the unusual cold weather, but money and prestige overrode common sense. O-rings, hardened by the cold, failed to expand and block the flow of fuel resulting in the explosion. According to NASA's politically motivated “wishful thinking” scientists the probability of a disastrous malfunction on a launch was practically nil. Which management then translated as nil. Shuttles would launch week after week for hundred of years and there would be no mishaps. But there was. Seven crew members died in the explosion that disintegrated the shuttle.
Is there nothing that can be fail-safe? There is one: God. God can be infallible, one hundred percent true , accurate, correct, all-knowing, all powerful and all that. While this belief about God can give warm feelings to divinely dependent beings, it has a serious downside: God can have all those absolute attributes simply because “he” does nothing and except for the endlessly repeated assertions by a power-motivated priestly class combined with necessarily non-rational faith of believers, God does not exist as He is believed to exist. Let’s really mix this up here: God, like all of science, like creation, like evolution, like dragons and vampires, like human sex pheromones, like everything we can observe or imagine, is but a theory. Life is but a theory.
What do we know for certain? Nothing. That’s the beauty of being alive, and in fact, that’s the only reason we can remain alive. Once everything is known, that’s death – total, complete death; death of body and of mind. Finis. Now this little run down the path of life here brings up something interesting: why are people who believe in a god, or in certain gods, or in theories they have become attached to and dependent upon, the most likely to become exclusive, bigoted, chauvinistic, and when push comes to shove, violent? Simple: the very idea that their belief; their pet god, would give rise to a challenging counter; to a conspiracy theory, frightens them into a corner. They simply cannot allow an anti-force to challenge their truth. What frightens them even more is the realization, whether conscious or subconscious, that their truth exists only to the degree that it is being successfully challenged. They don’t understand that. They have no concept of how duality works to make life possible.
Enter the conspiracy theorist; the duality reminder. True, some of these fringe people actually believe that their pronouncements are facts. Then sparks fly because "facts" rubbing against "anti-facts" cause friction because of violent energy exchanges. Think of it as lightning. Often a great heavenly show, but it does not guarantee rain. Here in the southwest burgs of Canada we get a lot of rain and very little lightning. In the north, the opposite happened: lots of thunder clouds and lighting in summer but very little rain. What excites or frightens is not the reality but the possibility. Conspiracies are fascinating in that they offer endless possibilities where the Matrix offers flatness, blandness, changelessness and when the conspiracy theorist offers her/his theories for free and with little or no attachment to challenges, the exercise becomes a game; a thinking game; a game I call "What if?" Throw the dice, see how it lands.
There are two conspiracy theories that make many an American and Canadian believer see red. One is challenging the "fact" that a trio of American astronauts actually did land on the moon in 1969; the other, that the destruction of the twin towers in New York was a premeditated inside job with the high jacked planes used as decoys. There are many well-researched studies using serious science that completely debunk the possibility that America's tin-foil space craft could have traversed the Van Allen radiation belt with anyone left alive on board since the effect would have been like being put in a microwave set on "popcorn" not the mention the exposure on the moon in a "papier-mâché" module. There are studies available that demonstrate how lights and cameras were used to fake the events on the moon itself, including visible stage-marks on "rocks" and double shadows or short and opposite shadows.
As for the infamous 9-11, the Bush excuse for launching a New World Order endless war in the Middle East and now spreading throughout Africa, serious science studies exist demonstrating that the buildings were imploded in typical calculated, pre-mined demolition fashion. Nothing had been left to chance and the swift removal of the evidence simply puts "Paid" on the invoice.
These kinds of conspiracy theories which throw a veil of duplicity and murder on the highest levels of government, scientific and technological institutions and business corporations make people very uncomfortable. It's like a famous preacher walking up to a pulpit in a church on a Sunday morning full-house service and declaring there is no God after all. Imagine where that leaves true believers. Imagine the reactions against that conspiracy theory preacher.
Conspiracy theories exist to keep people on their toes. No different than unpredictable natural event like tornados and earthquakes. Their message is, don't get spiritually deadened and don't become mentally lazy. Don't trust your fact prognosticators. Use your own mind and think about it all and see if you can bring down the edifice erected by a Matrix serving leadership. If you can, you will realize it's all a house of cards and really, in the end, none of it matters.
And finally, a quote from my favourite detective, Harry Crumb: "Believe what you will but don't believe it here."
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I love documentaries that cover and recover events and reality shows that attempt, sometimes with staging (unfortunately) and a bit too much drama (the music can be laughable), because they tend to reveal truth to us (like how hard it is to make money seeking gold). However, I'm getting a little bit tired of trying to find the Loch Ness monster and even worse, Bigfoot. Even my favorite tough outdoorsman, Les Stroud, has joined the money crowd and is out looking for Sasquatch with great drama in his whispered pronouncements when he hears something go "bump in the woods."
Like lotteries, conspiracy theories generate a lot of money for the creative people who think them up and promote them, and the keyword is "promotion," not the facts.
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